The Ultimate Fighter® 19 Tryouts open to Middleweights and light heavyweights

Aug 10, 2013

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Las Vegas, Nevada – The Ultimate Fighter®, The
Ultimate Fighting Championship’s® long-running reality series,
which launched the careers of more than 100 UFC fighters and
produced champions such as Forrest
Griffin, Rashad
Evans and Matt Serra and
season winners including Michael
Bisping, Ryan Bader
and Nate
Diaz, will be holding tryouts for its 19th season in
Indianapolis, Indiana.

Middleweight (185lbs) and light heavyweight (205lbs) fighters are
invited to attend the season 19 casting on Tuesday, August 27,
ahead of Wednesday night’s UFC® FIGHT NIGHT: CONDIT vs. KAMPMANN 2,
also in Indiana.

Middleweights were most recently featured on season 17, The
Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen, where Kelvin
Gastellum emerged the winner; while light heavyweights were last
featured on season 8, The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team
Mir, with the victory captured by Ryan
Bader.

This September, the series moves to its new home on FOX Sports 1
with the two-hour season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter: Team
Rousey vs. Team Tate, featuring UFC women’s bantamweight champion
Ronda
Rousey and fierce rival Miesha Tate,
set to air Wednesday, September 4 at 11 PM ET.

The Ultimate Fighter 19 candidates must be between 21 and 34 years
old, be able to legally live and work in the United States, have a
minimum of three professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights, and
hold a verifiable winning record. Applications, which should be
completed and brought to the tryouts, can be found online at
http://www.ufc.com/tuf19. Tryout details are provided below:

Applicants will be notified at the end of the tryouts if they have
been selected to advance in the selection process. Successful
candidates will be required to be present at final casting in Las
Vegas on September 2, 2013.

Questions can be directed to: tufcasting@ufc.com.

About the Ultimate Fighting Championship® Universally recognized
for its action-packed, can’t-miss events that have sold out some of
the biggest arenas and stadiums across the globe, the UFC® is the
world’s premier mixed martial arts (MMA) organization. Owned and
operated by Zuffa, LLC, headquartered in Las Vegas and with offices
in London, Toronto and Beijing, UFC produces more than 30 live
events annually and is the largest pay-per-view event provider in
the world. In 2012, the UFC burst into the mainstream with a
landmark seven-year broadcast agreement with FOX Sports Media
Group. The agreement includes four live events broadcast on the FOX
network annually, with additional fight cards and thousands of
hours of programming broadcast on FOX properties FX and FUEL TV.
This also includes the longest-running sports reality show on
television, The Ultimate Fighter®, moving to FOX Sports 1 in
September 2013.

In addition to its reach on FOX, UFC programming is broadcast in
over 145 countries, to nearly 800 million TV households worldwide,
in 28 different languages. UFC content is also distributed
commercially in the United States to bars and restaurants through
Joe
Hand Promotions, in English throughout Canada via Premium
Sports Broadcasting Inc. and Australia via Main Event and in French
throughout Quebec via Interbox. The UFC also connects with tens of
millions of fans through its website, UFC.com, as well as social
media sites Facebook and Twitter. UFC President Dana White is
considered one of the most accessible and followed executives in
sports, with nearly 2.4 million followers on Twitter. Ancillary UFC
businesses include best-selling DVDs and video games, UFC FIT®, an
in-home fitness and nutrition program, an internationally
distributed magazine, UFC.TV offering live event broadcasts and
video on demand around the world, a new franchise in development
with EA, UFC GYM®, UFC Fight Club® affinity program, UFC Fan Expo®
festivals, branded apparel and trading cards.